.COM FOR MURDER and GIALLO ESSENTIALS BOX-SET - Coming Feb from Arrow Video

Arrow Video’s February lineup includes a star-studded cyber chiller from Niko Mastorakis, and a deluxe boxset of essential giallo thrills, packed with a host of extra features.

.COM FOR MURDER - On Blu-ray 6th Feb

In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream! This turn-of-the-millennium cyber psycho-thriller from Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death, Nightmare at Noon) showcases the usual gleeful eye for excess and inspired casting (including rock stars Roger Daltrey and Huey Lewis) one has come to expect from the cult director.

Nastassja Kinski (Cat People) stars as Sondra Brummel, a young woman confined to a wheelchair following a skiing accident, who decides to have a bit of fun on an internet dating site with her friend Misty (Nicollette Sheridan - The Sure Thing) while her architect boyfriend Ben (Roger Daltrey The Legacy) leaves her alone for the weekend in the high-tech intelligent mansion he has built for them. 

Online anonymity works both ways, however, as they discover when they invoke the ire of a young man going by the handle of “Werther” and find the virtual world violently intruding upon the real, knife in hand…

Nico Mastorakis takes us to the dark side of the web in an audacious and vivacious retooling of classic Hitchcockian thrillers – think Rear Window 2000 meets Dial M for Mastorakis!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and lossless stereo audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
The Making of .com for Murder, a featurette on the making of the film
.com for Murder: The Unknown Story, a new featurette in which producer-director Nico Mastorakis revisits the production
Archive interviews with Roger Daltrey and Huey Lewis
Original trailer
Image gallery
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by David Flint

Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk

GIALLO ESSENTIALS WHITE EDITION - On Limited Edition Blu-ray Feb 23

At the height of the Italian giallo boom of the early 1970s, scores of filmmakers turned their hand to crafting their own unique takes on these lurid murder-mysteries. This volume of Giallo Essentials presents three distinctly different but equally thrilling examples of genre, featuring some of European cult cinema’s most recognizable faces.

In The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, director Emilio P. Miraglia (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times) melds the giallo’s trademark twisty whodunit storytelling with gothic chills, as troubled aristocrat Alan Cunningham (Anthony Steffen - Django the Bastard) is haunted by the specter of his dead wife Evelyn, and the gruesome and untimely deaths of several members of his family. 

Next, Riccardo Freda’s (Double Face) The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire finds tough ex-cop John Norton (Luigi Pistilli - A Bay of Blood) drafted in to catch the acid-throwing, razor-wielding maniac who’s terrorizing the streets of Dublin. Finally, Sergio Martino’s (Torso) The Suspicious Death of a Minor melds giallo trappings with elements of the then flourishing poliziotteschi crime thrillers, as undercover cop Paolo Germi (Claudio Cassinelli - What Have They Done to Your Daughters?) hunts a Milanese criminal outfit following the brutal murder of a teenage prostitute.

Brutal violence, globe-trotting intrigue and abundant sleaze collide in these three quintessential gialli, each one fully restored from its original camera negative and presented alongside an array of incisive bonus features.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

• 2K restorations from the original camera negative for all three films
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of each film
• Original Italian and English front and end titles
• Original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks
• Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
• Rigid box packaging with original poster artwork in a windowed Giallo Essentials Collection slipcover
• Reversible sleeves for each film featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx, Graham Humphreys and Chris Malbon

DISC ONE: THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE

• Audio commentary by Troy Howarth
• Exclusive introduction by Erika Blanc
• Interview with critic Stephen Thrower
• The Night Erika Came Out of the Grave – exclusive interview with Erika Blanc
• The Whip and the Body – archival interview with Erika Blanc
• Still Rising from the Grave – archival interview with production designer Lorenzo Baraldi
• Original Italian theatrical trailer

DISC TWO: THE IGUANA WITH THE TONGUE OF FIRE

• Audio commentary by giallo connoisseurs Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
• Of Chameleons and Iguanas – video appreciation by the cultural critic and academic Richard Dyer
• Considering Cipriani – appreciation of the composer Stelvio Cipriani and his score to The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire by DJ and soundtrack collector Lovely Jon
• The Cutting Game – interview with the film’s assistant editor Bruno Micheli
• The Red Queen of Hearts – career-spanning interview with the actress Dagmar Lassander
• Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
• Image gallery

DISC THREE: THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A MINOR

• Audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
• Violent Milan – interview with director Sergio Martino
• Original Italian theatrical trailer

Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk